The term customer communication management (CCM) has always been something of a misnomer in my mind—a cumbersome, 11-syllable phrase to describe composing and distributing bills, statements, policies... View More
Recently, a top headline in my local newspaper (yes, I said newspaper) announced that every student in the entire school district will have an iPad by next year. This might not be the "newest" topic, but... View More
With all the hype about Big Data and predictive analytics, we are seeing a plethora of technology providers tout how great their analytics capabilities are. Analytics is the new black! Predictive analytics... View More
If you are one of the more than 100 million customers who have purchased or licensed Microsoft SharePoint, you’ve probably adopted the platform to improve a spectrum of operations, ranging from optimizing... View More
Ferrari is a car manufacturer that, in recent years, has introduced its brand name to a lot of other products that have nothing to do with cars. Electronic document management (EDM) is not one of them,... View More
| #7 TOP READ — Not so many years ago, when you asked about enterprise content management (ECM), it was common to hear the words, “ECM is nice, but I do not consider it to be mission critical... View More
In a recent article for CMSWire titled "Office 365 is a Disaster Waiting to Happen," Joe Shepley states that Microsoft is helping new Office 365 clients to migrate their shared drive content to the Office... View More
When it comes to e-delivery, sometimes, I think the Postal Service is its own worst enemy. I recently met with a friend who is a large-volume mail processor. He is experiencing delivery delays and uncooperative... View More
Customers are the lifeblood of any business. If a business fails to serve its customers well, the business itself will ultimately fail. It is this old wisdom that is driving businesses forward to invest... View More
I think it would be safe to say that most everyone in financial services, insurance, healthcare, utilities or any other industry vertical that needs to consistently communicate with its customers knows... View More
If your job is to produce documents, whether you are in-house or a service provider, most likely, your clients need your help—help that you are uniquely qualified to deliver to them. Clients work... View More
In an ideal world, workers would easily be able to move seamlessly between paper, digital and even legacy formats from any information technology (IT) platform that they wished. Integration of information... View More
Last autumn, Greg Head, chief marketing officer of Infusionsoft, shared with me his concept about many in the digital marketing space. His idea was that these companies had been able to grow to the point... View More
It was not so long ago that we were excited about metadata and indexing, data capture with optical character recognition (OCR) and intelligent character recognition (ICR) and the integration of document... View More
In the 1960s, Bob Dylan wrote that “the times they are a-changin'.” Nowhere is that more true than in today’s technology arena. The state of information technology (IT) is undergoing... View More
For those of you in marketing, you’ve no doubt seen the deluge of ideas, opinions, tips, strategies and advice for content marketing. Content marketing works as a way to increase leads, trust and... View More
The document management environment seldom gets treated as a core competency or a strategic asset for an organization. Documents are typically required by law to fulfill a transaction, or used as a correspondence... View More
The power that information holds over an organization can be one of transformation as well as one of stagnation. How companies use and leverage their information assets can set them apart from their competitors.... View More
Every so often, I get a call from someone who wants to know if I can help them with their “document management problem.” When I ask some basic questions like, ”What is the problem?”... View More
The challenges associated with managing data have multiplied by previously unfathomable degrees in recent years. Prior to the adoption of computers and mobile devices, physical records were the only form... View More
